Depending on the timeframe a more routine makeup would be the CV, a large cruiser (gun cruiser like Salem in th early 60's, missile cruiser like Chicago in the later), a DLG of the Belknap/Leahy flavour, and 3-4 small boys (FRAM destroyers in the early 60s, Adams and Knox class in the later). Add in an oiler and maybe an AE/AKE type.

not as part of the carrier battle group, no. Submarine operations were coordinated but commanded from the Submarine Operating Authority separately. Coordinated and then Direct Support tactics were developed later.

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IIRC, the strike forces off Vietnam were organized into one or two Task Forces (on Yankee and Dixie Stations), rather than battle groups. While of course Task Forces were often subdivided into Task Groups, a la WWII, I don't think off Vietnam we used the familiar "Carrier Battle/Strike Group" TG organization of one carrier + escorts.

IcelofAngeln wrote:
IIRC, the strike forces off Vietnam were organized into one or two Task Forces (on Yankee and Dixie Stations), rather than battle groups. While of course Task Forces were often subdivided into Task Groups, a la WWII, I don't think off Vietnam we used the familiar "Carrier Battle/Strike Group" TG organization of one carrier + escorts.

the terms "Carrier Battle/Strike Group" were a post-Vietnam naming convention. They are, of course, just renaming what already existed; i.e., Task Groups. The TF and TG numbering conventions didn't change at all. So Task Force 60 in the Sixth Fleet, for example, is the Carrier Task Force while individual "Carrier Battle Groups" were numbered as always; TG 60.1, and TG 60.2, etc. with further breakdowns into Task Elements and so forth. None of that every actually changed.

All the "Carrier Battle Group", "Strike Group", "Expeditionary Task Group", etc., did was get some staff puke somewhere a Commendation medal......................

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